A key defence document in the three-month 2000 Lipstadt
libel trial was a telegram (right) allegedly sent by Gestapo
chief Heinrich Müller (RSHA Amt IV) to the
Einsatzgruppen on August 1, 1941; but when challenged, the
defence lawyers were not able to identify its real
provenance, to enable Mr Irving to see the surrounding
documents. Nobody seemed to know where the original was.
Everybody was copying everybody else's copy. There was sound
reason for Mr Irving's challenge.